answer:Protect the people of Arizona? What, is there a zombie invasion? The hysteria over illegal immigration is divisive, bigoted, and and a royal pain in the ass. We can either a) enforce the laws that are already on the books or b) pass comprehensive legislation and then enforce it. Many (not all, I’m sure) illegal immigrants are trying to make a better life for their families. If your family was in dire straits and you had no options, how far would you go for them? That’s not to say that I think that entering the country illegally is ok, not at all. But if you want to reduce the numbers entering this country illegally, then you have to get rid of the incentive for them to do so. Rather than cracking down on the guy fording the river, how about the US citizen who knowingly breaks US law by knowingly hiring workers without proper documentation to make a buck? How about the (relative to his workers) rich guy that’s paying cheap wages and supplying substandard working conditions and housing ‘cause he’s trying to get richer? That’s the criminal, in my mind. If those US citizens weren’t providing jobs, there’d be much less reason to undertake the risk of entering this country illegally. (And by the way, Sarah Palin needs to shut her stupid yap. If she wasn’t interested in performing her duties for the state of Alaska, why is she commenting on Arizona?)